Summaries
Amy, an 11-year-old girl, joins a group of
dancers named "the cuties" at school, and rapidly grows aware of her
burgeoning femininity - upsetting her mother and her values in the process.
—Reini
Urban
Director: Maïmouna Doucouré
Writer: Maïmouna Doucouré (screenplay)
Stars: Fathia Youssouf, Médina El Aidi-Azouni, Esther
Gohourou
Genres: Drama
Certification
Argentina:16 Australia:MA15+
Brazil:16 Canada:TV-MA (self-applied) Chile:16+ (Netflix
self-rating, video) France:Tous publics Japan:15
(self-applied) Mexico:TV-MA (self-applied) Singapore:NC16
South Korea:15 Spain:16 United Kingdom:15 United
States:TV-MA Vietnam:C18
Sex & Nudity
Moderate 114 of 634 found this moderate
When caught with her cousin's phone, an
11-year-old girl locks herself in the bathroom, pulls down her pants and snaps
a picture of her private area before publishing it online. No nudity is
actually shown. However, The camera focused on the child removing her jeans and
her underwear and spreading her legs.
Children are watching pornography on a cell
phone. Nothing is shown, little girls are huddled around a phone and talking
about what is going on. Another scene shows two young girls watching the
routine of a rival, older dance team on a cell phone. One of the girls dancing
exposes her bare breast. Entire breast is visible.
Frequent scenes of 11-year-old girls dancing
lewdly where the camera pans in and zooms in on the children's buttocks and
midsections (both still in skin-tight clothes) Close up shots of children
dancing with their leg spread above their head while camera focus on crotch
area.
The little 11-year-old girls are slapping
each other's buttocks in the film, kissing their hands and then touching their
crotches, and rubbing their buttocks together, and making seductive faces while
sticking their fingers in their mouth.
Four 11-year-old girls use one's laptop to
access a cam site. The male on the other side is unaware but is disgusted as
soon as he realizes it.
11 year-old-girl gets in fight with older
girl and during process of fight the older girl starts to pull off the younger
girls pants down to her knees exposing her underwear as her friends try to pull
her away.
Frequent close up/slow shots of underage girls
midsections, crotch, buttocks, while dancing provocatively (twerking, humping
ground, on all fours, legs spread, bending over) and in minimal skin tight
clothing or underwear.
One child is doused with water while wearing
a tiny tank top and teeny underwear that expose her butt cheeks.... child
bounces as camera focuses on breasts and child gets on all fours and grinds
pelvis into floor and twerks while camera films from behind with an up angle on
child's mostly bare bottom and underwear in crack.
In one scene, two grown men watch a child
dance suggestively while other children encourage her...men look at her body
and don't tel her to stop.
A dance on a staircase shows little girls in
full face makeup licking their fingers, spreading their legs (with barely there
shorts) twerking and grinding while the camera films as if at a strip club.
Little girl does laundry with black leather
pants on and teeny shirt as she dances suggestively, flips her hair, and is
filmed from behind while the camera has a field day with the child's bottom.
In the schoolyard, two little girls
physically fight while others cheer and they remove a little girls pants
exposing her bottom and tiny underwear - especially troublesome is the camera
focuses on her bottom and people take pictures of her bottom.
11 year old girls skip & cheer down the
middle of a public street wearing underwear as outerwear, (yet with the bras
& panties still worn over their clothes), mimicking what they see popular
female celebrities wear, (but with their underwear worn as outerwear without
any other clothes), in today's Mainstream Pop Culture.
Violence & Gore
Mild 167 of 424 found this mild
Several ugly fights break out among
pre-teens, with frenetic camerawork that doesn't show much in terms of actual
blows.
Amy is patted on the buttocks by a boy from
her class, children in the class brawl, and she then stabs a pen in the boy's
hand, but the injury is mild and no blood is shown.
Bullying behavior: Amy and an older
schoolgirl fight, the older girls gang up on her, pull her pants down to reveal
underwear, circulate photo and, later, Amy pushes Yazmin in water and watching
her struggle (until she reaches a buoy) but not helping.
A young girl hides behind a corner and waits
for another young girl to walk past where she then jumps out and deliberately
shoves her into a river. She watches on doing nothing as the other girl appears
to be unable to swim and almost drown until eventually grabbing hold of a buoy
floating nearby.
Profanity
Moderate 133 of 440 found this moderate
A few scattered F-words, mostly used by
11-year-olds. Some milder profanities (shit, bitch, whore). There's a couple
instances of a slur used that invokes anger from another character, but the
English subtitles don't show what it is.
In school, a boy smacks a girls butt and says
if she acts like a whore, he can treat her like one.
Suggested MPAA Rating R For pervasive sexual
material, some violence, and language - All involving children
Movie Review
If you haven't seen the final dance routine
it will turn your stomach at the close-up crotch and butt shots. There is an 11
year old with her legs wide apart in several scenes. Dry humping and slapping
each other's bottoms. The film could have made its point without the
inappropriate close filming. I have never been more shocked and angry and
repulsed by a movie before.
Details
Country: France
Language: French | Spanish | Arabic | English
Release
Date: 9 September 2020 (UK)
Also
Known As: Cuties
Box Office
Cumulative
Worldwide Gross: $644,309
Company Credits
Production
Co: Bien Ou Bien Productions, France
3 Cinéma, Canal+
Technical Specs
Runtime: 96 min
Sound
Mix: Dolby Digital
Color: Color
Aspect
Ratio: 2.35 : 1
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